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Dakota Fanning and Andrew Scott Gush Over Their Friendship and Playing Frenemies in 'Ripley' (Exclusive)

The series premieres on Netflix on April 4.

The 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith follows Scott's character, a New York City grifter hired by the father of Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to bring his son home to the United States and enlist him in the family business. For the new version, the show's creators opted to give the classic story -- which has been told numerous times before including in a 1999 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow -- a darker and more sinister spin that will leave the audience in suspense. ET asked Fanning -- who will serve as an executive producer on the series -- what attracted her to the memoir and made her interested in bringing it to the small screen, to which she had a blunt but completely reasonable three-word response.

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